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Growing up in Australia with an Italian background is hard enough, but what if you are a passionate, head strong girl struggling to come to terms with a newly discovered father, an overpowering grandmother and the death of a close friend. ‘Looking for Alibrandi’ was a novel that compelled me to keep turning the pages to find out what would happen next in Josephine Alibrandi’s eventful life.

Melina Marchetta, author of the multi award winning ‘Looking for Alibrandi’ says that she finds the young adult group fascinating and identifies strongly with it. She likes the stage teenagers are at of being so open to change and growth, so vulnerable yet so exuberant. She thinks that at 28, she is still very similar to them in tastes, and that today's teenagers are maturing very much faster than those of her time. Melina is able to write about teenagers with truth and in the language they really use, because she mixes with them daily with her own family and in her teaching and......

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